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Also see: “John Boehner’s Ranking Campaign Contributor has a Sordid History of Corporate Crime“ Boehner for Speaker Committee Stacks Up $5 Million in Third Quarter October 15, 2013 A fundraising committee showed strong efforts by ...

Also see: “Rand Paul’s plagiarism allegations, and why they matter,” Washington Post, November 4, 2013: ” … Paul hasn’t denied that the language was borrowed. Instead, he has argued that he is the victim of ‘haters‘ out to destroy ...

October 25, 2013 Republicans are demanding cuts in Social Security and Medicare if Democrats want to change the terms of the “sequester.” … So is the media giving Americans the information they need in order ...

” … The current government shutdown is a foretaste of the radical right’s deadly serious agenda to take sole power, irrespective of their increasing unpopularity. … When a movement seeks to take power, they do ...

In the midst of his speech at this weekend’s Values Voter Summit, Glenn Beck seemed momentarily taken aback by the depth of his audience’s contempt for gay people. Beck was on stage, flanked by the ...

I watched a Chris Hayes’ panel on Thursday, October 9, 2013. They were discussing the government shut down and the debt ceiling. No one mentioned that the faction standing on the ledge and threatening to ...

A federal judge on Monday sentenced former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi to three years in prison for convictions on public corruption, money laundering and other charges. U.S. District Judge David C. Bury also sentenced Renzi ...

It slipped out in an unguarded moment, as the truth often does. Nevada Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Reno, was in the midst of a routine interview on KOH, right-wing talk radio. He knows the ...

October 18, 2013 The crisis in Washington was always partly a story about money in politics, with big conservative donors pushing GOP lawmakers to an extreme stance with threats of primary challenges to those who ...

$15 million hit for campaign reporting violations Sacramento — In a case seeking to unmask the murky multimillion-dollar trail of money pouring into state and national political campaigns, California’s political watchdog agency on Thursday announced ...

The grassroots movement image fostered by the tea party is anything but – it was planned, nurtured and harvested by Charles and David Koch and a few of their mega-rich ultra-conservative cronies. Who makes up ...

“… This kind of scorched earth politics that runs through everything Eric Cantor and this demagogic Republican Party has done, is a disgrace. …” Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein on Wednesday called out Rep. Eric Cantor and ...

Sen. Sanders put the blame for the government shutdown square on the Koch Brothers, “Let’s not kid ourselves. This shutdown is not something that just came about a couple of weeks ago through Ted Cruz. ...

“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” — Peter Thiel, April 13 2009 The Gay Billionaire Pothead Behind the Senate’s New Right-Wing Star Gawker, September 30, 2013 Where does a man like ...

A national “tea party” group Friday gave $20,000 to organizers of a referendum drive seeking to put Medicaid expansion on the 2014 ballot. The Tea Party Patriots’ contribution was a boost as petition gatherers head ...

To the surprise of no one, studies have shown voter ID laws target young minority voters and other demographics who routinely vote Democratic. More surprising, however, is that Republicans are now actually copping to the fact ...

LANSING — A member of the Michigan Republican State Committee is facing criminal charges in Green Bay, Wis., in connection with a March incident involving a high-powered weapon and his estranged wife. No shots were ...

Does the following description of a political situation at the beginning of July apply to Egypt, or to North Carolina? “Just a year after winning a decisive election victory and taking power from an entrenched ...

John Clarence and Tom Whittle, co-authors of The Gold House trilogy, allege a massive gold theft at White Sands Missile Range had its roots in a meeting more than three years before at Richard Nixon’s ...

When former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels became president of Purdue University, he said he promised to promote academic freedom, but the Associated Press reported that was not the case. According to e-mails obtained on a Freedom ...

Is Gov. Rick Scott covering up GOP voter registration fraud? The future leader of the House Democrats thinks perhaps he is and is asking Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford to hold legislative hearings on what ...

More lawmakers in North Carolina than in any other state have signed Americans for Prosperity’s pledge against spending money to address the climate crisis. The political clout of conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch of ...

Photo: Glendon Scott Crawford of the Tea Party Patriots “social welfare” organization and KKK plotted to kill Muslims while they slept with a device he described as “Hiroshima on a light switch” ” … Crawford, ...

AUSTIN, Texas (CN) – Gov. Rick Perry cannot withhold public funds until he can swap a drunk-driving Democratic prosecutor for the Republican of his choice, a watchdog group said. Rosemay Lehmberg, the sitting district attorney ...